From 2e66d402480efc736962854bb456834c3f735e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: trent <trendoncato@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:40:09 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue with Unable to create a 'DbContext' of type
 'AppDbContext'

---
 .../Data/AppDbContextFactory.cs               | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../VigilCareClinicalAPI.csproj               |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 VigilCareClinicalAPI/Data/AppDbContextFactory.cs

diff --git a/VigilCareClinicalAPI/Data/AppDbContextFactory.cs b/VigilCareClinicalAPI/Data/AppDbContextFactory.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25deaca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VigilCareClinicalAPI/Data/AppDbContextFactory.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Creates <see cref="AppDbContext"/> for EF tools and migration bundles without
+/// running <c>Program.cs</c> (JWT and other runtime config are not available there).
+/// <c>./migrate-api --connection</c> still overrides the connection at apply time.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class AppDbContextFactory : IDesignTimeDbContextFactory<AppDbContext>
+{
+    public AppDbContext CreateDbContext(string[] args)
+    {
+        var connectionString =
+            Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection")
+            ?? "Host=127.0.0.1;Database=vigilcare;Username=postgres;Password=postgres";
+
+        var options = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<AppDbContext>()
+            .UseNpgsql(connectionString)
+            .Options;
+
+        return new AppDbContext(options);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/VigilCareClinicalAPI/VigilCareClinicalAPI.csproj b/VigilCareClinicalAPI/VigilCareClinicalAPI.csproj
index fd16237..777f711 100644
--- a/VigilCareClinicalAPI/VigilCareClinicalAPI.csproj
+++ b/VigilCareClinicalAPI/VigilCareClinicalAPI.csproj
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Hl7.Fhir.R4" Version="5.11.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer" Version="8.0.27" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi" Version="8.0.27" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design" Version="8.0.4">
+      <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
+      <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
+    </PackageReference>
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="8.0.4">
       <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
       <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>